The friendship between two girls "almost 14 year olds," Frank and Anna. Friendship strong, solid. So necessary to be a lifeline in the world oppressed, gray in which they live. That world is a working class district today, a time when even if the workers are no longer those of a mythologized time, but are ordinary people, victims of the 'irrational-popular Berlusconi. So are workers who snort cocaine, who pilfered, who aspire to the society of spectacle. This would be enough for environmental characterization spice up the novel "steel" Silvia Avalos. But
"Steel" is much more. It 's almost a novel of the past, with a solid implant, an interesting scenario, a compelling main story and a parable of the protagonists at the end of the novel are transformed, grown, have found life. A novel
other issues for its massive structure but a novel that addresses issues of great relevance for: the growth of two girls who become women, friendship put to the test by a false and hypocritical world, from the irreversible crisis of the figures workers who are struggling to universal feelings ever to emerge from the relationship with parents bribed by screw unfortunate that make you lose lucidity, the charm of an idealized world that is just ashes.
Francesca and Anna, the two protagonists are spectators and participants in a world that is not (more) to measure feelings but will corrode slowly with the myths of invincibility, wealth, the dream of a different life. And the two girls through this hostile universe with suffering but also lightly, knowing that new tests will and the strength of feeling is essential to a bank to get by. Around them is decrepit industrial Italy, springs, leaving only ruins around him.
